Quotes by Patrick Leigh Fermor

About Patrick Leigh Fermor:

Sir Patrick Michael Leigh Fermor was a British author, scholar and soldier who played a prominent role behind the lines in the Cretan resistance during the Second World War. He was widely regarded as Britain's greatest living travel writer during his lifetime, based on books such as A Time of Gifts (1977). A BBC journalist once described him as "a cross between Indiana Jones, James Bond and Graham Greene." The Patrick Leigh Fermor Society was formed in 2014.
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I found my mind wandering at games; loved boxing and was good at it; and in summer, having chosen rowing instead of cricket, lay peacefully by the Stour, well upstream of the rhythmic creaking and the exhortation, reading and Gibbon and gossiping wit...

Patrick Leigh Fermor

I never heard communism seriously propounded or argued; perhaps I was too deeply preoccupied with my own dissipations; and, as it turned out in the end it was a way of thought that I was denied or spared by a geographical fluke. From the end of these...

Patrick Leigh Fermor

Author Bio

  • NamePatrick Leigh Fermor
  • DescriptionBritish author, scholar and soldier
  • AliasesSir Patrick Michael Leigh Fermor; Paddy Fermor; Patrick Leigh-Fermor
  • BornFebruary 11, 1915
  • DiedJune 10, 2011
  • CountryUnited Kingdom
  • ProfessionWriter
  • AwardsOfficer Of The Order Of The British Empire; Distinguished Service Order